Aaron Koblin Quotes

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

An idea is a feat of association.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.